IEEE ICA2021

The 5th IEEE International Conference on Agents

IEEE ICA2021

Date Dec 13-15, 2021. Venue : online.

Scope and Background:

Intelligent agents are software entities which can carry out some actions on behalf of clients with some degree of autonomy. Through sensing the status of environment, and by performing operations based on the knowledge they possess, agents change or influence the environment towards their goals. A group or a society of agents form a Multi-Agent System (MAS) in which they interact cooperatively and/or competitively for their individual or common goals. In general, agents possess five common properties which are: autonomy (some level of self-control); adaptivity (the ability to learn and improve performance with experience); reactivity (the ability to perceive the environment and to respond in a timely fashion to changes that occur); proactivity (the ability not only to act simply in response to their environment but also to exhibit goal-directed behaviour by taking the initiative); and sociability (the ability to interact, communicate and work with other agents). Research on agent techniques and MASs mainly focus on improving existing - or inventing innovative - frameworks, models, mechanisms, approaches and algorithms, in order to improve agents’ effectiveness and efficiency in those five aspects for advanced autonomous problem solving abilities in complex environments.

Topics:

We envision a future society where computational agents and humans (physical agents) live, work and snuggle together in harmony. This harmonious collaboration is of paramount importance in the next-generation society. IEEE ICA2021 will call for papers related to, but not limited to, the following topics:

• Decision making techniques

• Multi-agent communication and interaction protocols

• Negotiation and argumentation

• Game theory, auctions, and markets

• Social computing

• Cooperation, collaboration and coordination mechanisms

• Self-organization and self-adaptation

• Multiagent Computational reasoning

• Multiagent Machine learning

• Complex systems and system dynamics

• Collective intelligence

• Agent-Oriented Programming languages and Software Engineering

• Human and multi-agent systems interaction

• Human Agents / Robots Interaction